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Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens - A Legal Analysis

Ashok Kumar Behera*

In a society elderly people suffer from poverty, loneliness, neglect, abuse and abandonment and they find very difficult to use their resources for their basic needs by which they are unable or unwilling to maintain them.Thus, the problem of widows, widowers and the childless elderly are even inferior and pity condition. The National Policy on Older Persons was announced in January 1999 to reaffirm the commitment to ensure the well-being of the older persons.Thus, the increasing problems of parents and Senior Citizens in India is matter of concern and there is an urgent need to study issues pertaining to Senior citizens, to find out and suggest for more stringent norms, better and modest procedural provisions for the proper implementation of the Act and rules.